Let them try to secede. I'd like to kick their butts twice in one year.
I got a good idea. Let's create a new state, name, Jefferson, capital Yakima. It'll be Washington and Oregon east of the Cascades. And another state, Appalachia, all the red counties in mountainous Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York. Then we might have a state called "Eerie," including Pittsburgh, Erie, Youngstown, and Cleveland, the eerie rust belt. (Pennsylvania would be split by Appalachia.) Then split up California, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota...so that the "red" counties stay ours.
Why not just let them go? Seriously, is it really worth a war to retain the left wing cultural dumpster of Massachusetts - where every single county voted for Kerry and every single congressman and senator is a liberal democrat - when the only gain from doing so is to keep their left wing delegations to vote and filibuster us in Congress? If they want to go let em go and let em take Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut with them. It'd be no loss to us.